Reliever Brandon Kintzler had a wedding to remember

Phoenix -- Brandon Kintzler will spend the next six weeks or so trying to lock down a spot in a revamped Milwaukee Brewers bullpen.

This past off-season, though, he locked down his longtime girlfriend, Melissa, in quite memorable fashion in his hometown of Las Vegas.

"We did a drive-through wedding," Kintzler said with a laugh. "Put my dog in a tuxedo, put him in the back seat. Drove up to the little white chapel where Britney Spears got married. The minister literally comes out of literally a drive-through window, you say your vows and you’re gone.

"Fifty bucks. Cheapest wedding ever. The video part was more expensive – it was 85."

Kintzler wore dress slacks, a dress shirt and tie while his bride wore a white cocktail dress. They pulled up to the chapel in Kintzler's grandfather's 1940 Chevy Special Deluxe with his boxer, Bo, in the back seat sitting next to Kintzler's agent.

"My agent was in the back seat as a witness," he said. "But the dog is on the marriage certificate too."

The scene got even more surreal when some passersby got a glimpse of Bo -- named after Bo Jackson -- all done up in his wedding duds.

"There was a tourist bus that stopped to take pictures of him in his tuxedo," Kintzler said, adding his bride found the dog's get-up online for $30.

While the whole scene was fun and memorable, Kintzler said there was a practical reason for getting hitched in such a way. The couple met while Kintzler was playing for the Winnipeg Goldeneyes in the Independent Northern League a few years back, with Melissa being a native Canadian.

"We wanted to get it done," he said. "Family wasn’t going to be able to come at that time. She’s from Canada, so we really wanted to speed up the immigration process too. She doesn't have to fly back and forth from Canada (now.) It helps everything just to get it over with."

The two will head to Jamaica for a destination wedding following the season.

"She deserves a real wedding, so we’ll have a real one," he said.

Oh yeah, and Kintzler can pitch also. The right-hander went 3-0 with a 3.78 ERA in 14 appearances last season (16 2/3 innings), striking out 14, walking seven and posting a WHIP of 1.50.

Fully recovered from forearm surgery that derailed most of his 2012 season, Kintzler is expected to be solidly in the mix to break camp with the Brewers in a bullpen that features all kinds of new faces.

"They say I'm in the plans, but obviously we know that things can change at any time in this business," he said. "I think I'm just going to come in like spring training in 2011, just try to prove myself again, get ready for the season, and hopefully I'm in a good spot when it's over."